John Luther Long
Author
Publisher
Cherry Hill Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Cho-Cho San (Butterfly), a young Japanese girl, marries Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, a young U.S. Navy lieutenant and is denounced by her family for forsaking their ancestral religion. When he leaves her to return to his world, Butterfly confidently and patiently awaits his homecoming. Three years later, Pinkerton's ship finally anchors in the harbor again, but Butterfly does not get the happy ending she was hoping for.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When recently orphaned Woodley Sharpless encounters Ben Pinkerton -- known to all as 'Trouble' -- for the first time at the exclusive Blaze Academy, he is instantly enraptured. They are polar opposites; Ben is exotic and daring; Woodley is bookish and frail, yet their lives quickly become inextricable intertwined. First at school, then in the staccato days of twenties New York, Woodley sees flashes of another person in his friend and slowly discovers...
